Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion

6 best books like Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (Jane Ellen Harrison): The Romance of Tristan and Iseult, Three Plays: The Wasps / The Poet and the Women / The Frogs, Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Hecabe / Electra / Heracles, The World of Odysseus, Dionysus: Myth and Cult, The Greeks and the Irrational

The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

Author	M. Joseph Bédier
ISBN	0679750169

A tale of chivalry and doomed, transcendent love, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult is one of the most resonant works of Western literature, as well as the basis for our enduring idea of romance. The story of the Cornish knight and the Irish princess who meet by deception, fall in love by magic, and pursue...

Three Plays: The Wasps / The Poet and the Women / The Frogs

Author	Aristophanes
ISBN	0140441522

The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In "The Frogs", written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and...

Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Hecabe / Electra / Heracles

Author	Euripides
ISBN	0140441298

The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt, and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods, Euripides (484-407 BC) made his characters speak in human terms and face the...

The World of Odysseus

Author	Moses I. Finley
ISBN	1590170172

The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the social history...

Dionysus: Myth and Cult

Author	Walter F. Otto
ISBN	0253208912

In this classic study of the myth and cult of Dionysus, Walter F. Otto recreates the theological world of ancient Greek religion. Otto's provocative starting point is to accept the immanent reality of the gods. To understand the cult of Dionysus, it is necessary to reimagine the original vision of the...

The Greeks and the Irrational

Author	E.R. Dodds
ISBN	0520003276

In this philosophy classic, first published in 1951, E.R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology & psychology, he asks, "Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from 'primitive' modes...